destruction

Main Entry:
destruction [dih-struhk-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: demolition, devastation
Synonyms: abolishing, abolition, annihilation, assassinating, bane, carnage, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishing, extirpation, havoc, invalidating, invalidation, liquidation, loss, massacre, murder, overthrow, ravaging, ruin, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaughter, slaying, subjugation, subversion, subverting, undoing, wreckage, wrecking
Antonyms: building, construction, creation, improvement, reparation, restoration
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Nonproduction] Destruction.
Category: 3. POWER IN OPERATION
Synonyms:
-nouns
destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization., fall, downfall, ruin, peridition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout., extinction, annihilation; destruction of life; knock-down blow; doom, crack of doom., destroying; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition (abrogation); biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, devastation, razzia; incendiarism; revolution; extirpation (extraction); commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation (deterioration); sabotage.
-verbs
be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall., destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annul; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume., smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground., deal destruction, lay waste, ravage, gut; disorganize; dismantle (render useless); devour, swallow up, desolate, devastate, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincement of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.
-adjectives
destroyed; perishing; trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of destruction; extinct; all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing., destructive, subversive, ruinous, incendiary, deletory; destroying n. suicidal; deadly (killing).
-adverbs
with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer.
-phrases
delenda est Carthago [Cato. "Carthage must be destroyed" (Latin)]; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit ["While Rome deliberates Saguntum perishes" (Latin)]; ecrasez
Antonyms: production
Browse Concept Index »
Main Entry: abolition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: formal act of putting an end to, annulling
Synonyms: abolishment, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, cancellation, destruction, dissolution, elimination, end, ending, eradication, extirpation, invalidation, negation, nullification, obliteration, overthrow, overturning, quashing, repeal, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, revocation, subversion, suppression, termination, voiding, wiping out, withdrawal
Antonyms: confirmation, establishment, establishment, institution, legalization, promotion
Main Entry: bane
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cause of misery
Synonyms: affliction, blight, burden, bête noir, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, fatal attraction, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, ruination, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe
Antonyms: advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck
Main Entry: collapse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: downfall, breakdown
Synonyms: bankruptcy, basket case, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave-in, conk out, crackup, crash, debacle, destruction, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, exhaustion, failure, faint, flop, prostration, ruination, ruining, smash, smashup, subsidence, undoing, wreck
Antonyms: build-up, increase, rise, success
Main Entry: collision
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: accident
Synonyms: blow, bump, butt, concussion, contact, crash, demolishment, destruction, dilapidation, encounter, fender bender, head-on, hit, impact, jar, jolt, knock, percussion, pileup, rap, ruin, shock, sideswipe, slam, smash, strike, thud, thump, wreck
Main Entry: consumption
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: devouring; use
Synonyms: burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, drinking, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, using up, utilization, waste, wear and tear
Antonyms: fasting, starvation
Main Entry: damage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: injury, loss
Synonyms: accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, cave-in, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, impairment, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit
Main Entry: death
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: end of life
Synonyms: afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb
Antonyms: being, birth, entity, existence, life, living
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